Consent In Action Research

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This action research will take place with the consent of the building principal, students and parents at Civic Memorial High School in Bethalto, Illinois. Fifth Hour World History, a sophomore class, will be examined and used as a part of this action research. Nine focus students that have been carefully chosen based on performance, ability, motivation and willingness to participate in honest self-assessment, will be carefully monitored and their feedback will drive the data. These students will fall under a basic category of high, medium and low performance, unknown by them. I have decided to choose three students for each category to increase my data sources and to hopefully draw more decisive conclusions from the evidence …show more content…

There were various consent forms and agreements among multiple parties to insure confidentiality and mutual respect among participants. One such examination was the IRB module, which brought to light multiple concepts regarding ethics and morality when researching humans. The IRB module was taken in the spring of 2015 to insure the annual requirements needed to participate in the following action research study during the 2015-16 school year. Parental consent was given out and received during first week of September 2015 to insure confidentiality of records, contact information and overall approval of the action research conducted on his or her child. This letter was formatted and adapted according to school and district policies for communicating with parents/guardians. The focus group was given the forms and was verbally given an explanation of the action research project and the importance of both their consent and their parents’ consent as well. Each student seemed eager and enthusiastic to help and all turned in their consent form within a week after receiving the form. A similar form was used to get administrator consent for the action research as well. Both my principal and superintendant have been informed of the action research and have given their consent and moral support. They have also given suggestions on strategies and literature to further my study in formative assessments. These ethical considerations are of utmost importance and it was clearly stated during the planning process of this action research project the need to obtain permission from both parties, the right of participants to withdraw, participant involvement, confidentiality, anonymity and the need to build a relationship of trust among mutual participants. All parties have shown great support for this project since the goal is about achieving greater